The Loughborough Bell Foundry
Working with the monks of this Abbey Church a major rehanging of their Spanish bells will take place. The four bells will be lifted from the tower by crane and be taken to the Abbey engineering workshops. The headstocks and other fittings will be restored or replaced with new as necessary, and the bells restored […]
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The authorities at this theological college have ordered work to be carried out on their single 21″ diameter Thomas Mears bell of 1837. At present the bell cannot be sounded because its clapper is missing so a new automatic chiming system and hammer will be manufactured and supplied with an Apollo programmable unit so that […]
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This church houses a Westminster clock chime of four bells (largest 5 cwts) that were cast by Taylor’s in 1931. A local contractor supplied and installed a steel bell frame constructed of universal beams in recent decades which was undersized and was fitted by iron fixings into unstable stonework which has burst through rusting expansion. […]
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Having recently completed a major refurbishment of this 9 cwt ring of six, this church has now placed an order for the hanging of a separate clock/service bell. The second hand bell originally hung at Hudswell Church which is now redundant, near Richmond North Yorkshire. The bell will be hung stationery with both an internal […]
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Following the disastrous fire at this church last year which completely gutted the tower, the 11cwt ring of eight was safely lowered to the floor and brought to the Foundry for safe keeping. The bells were a mixed ring, three by Thomas Lester dated 1739, three by Mears & Stainbank dated 1919, and two by […]
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This town clock tower was built in 1936 and in that year Taylor’s cast a diatonic chime of five bells and Smith’s of Derby manufactured a clock mechanism capable of playing the nursery rhyme “Girls & boys come out to play”. The clock tower is to undergo restoration and while this is ongoing, the bells […]
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A major project is to be undertaken at this church. The present 16 cwt six date from 1697, 1755, & 1837 and are unringable. The bells and their fittings will be removed from the tower and brought back to the Foundry. The present ancient oak bell frame will be retained in situ, and a new […]
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An order has been placed for the casting and tuning of 5 bells to form a Quarter Chime and Hour Bell. The largest bell will weigh over one ton. The bells are due to be cast during September/October 2019.
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